Siera Maley > Quotes

“People are not milk cartons. You don’t pick and choose the ones you think will last the longest without going sour. If it feels right, you just go with it until it doesn’t feel right anymore. And sometimes when something goes wrong, it hurts. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it in the first place.”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“Have you ever considered the fact that maybe the goal of life isn’t to get through it as painlessly as possible?” she”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“If you want to be happy, it’s pretty simple: you do things that make you happy. If you don’t want to be unhappy, you’re cool with that safe, neutral, boring zone where nothing good or bad happens.”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“Being gay is only one small facet to the complex organism that is myself, and if you do like girls, it will be equally irrelevant to ninety-nine percent of your life.”
― Siera Maley, Time It Right

“I feel like I showed up to school naked or something. I say I'm dating a girl and suddenly all everyone cares about is my sex life.”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper

“Of course there are lesbians. Every piece of media I consume now must have lesbians. This is how lesbianism works.”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper

“I just want to be happy. Ignoring things makes me happy. Ignorance is bliss, right?”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“Have you ever considered the fact that maybe the goal of life isn’t to get through it as painlessly as possible?”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“We're not a couple." I pulled my hand back. "There's no one watching, so what's the point?"
"I'm a method actress." She grabbed my hand again with another smile, and I glared out of my window, not bothering to fight her on it anymore.”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper

“And I didn't realize it then, as Sarah and I left the parking lot and sped down the road in her little four-door, but I think that by the end of that very first school day I'd already fallen a bit in love with her.”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper

“But this was real life. And in real life, I was the love interest.”
― Siera Maley, Colorblind

“[...]Eventually you realize that as much as you hope a frog could be a prince, it's probably actually just a frog."
"How do you avoid getting hurt if you are the frog", i asked. There was a long pause. And, eventually, she murmured,
"The frog don't get hurt, Lauren. You can't break a heart that doesn't exist.”
― Siera Maley, Taking Flight

“I wanted to fix things, obviously. You know it’s like… the planets are out of alignment when we’re fighting.”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper

“I guess sometimes I think it'd be nice to love someone. To be able to tell them anything and everything and... I don't know, learn all of their pet peeves and favorite books and movies and where their ticklish spots are. But as nice as it'd be, I figure it's equally scary. If you leave your heart in someone else's hands it's so much easier to get it broken. And sometimes I think could be worth it, but then I tell myself off emotionally because it's easier.”
― Siera Maley, Taking Flight

“and everywhere she kissed or touched was simultaneously too much and not enough.”
― Siera Maley, Time It Right

“You can be gay, or bisexual, or even straight, and we’ll love you as long as you’re being who you are, okay?”
― Siera Maley, Dating Sarah Cooper